Excerpt from The Select Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D, Vol. 5 of 5: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Containing the Whole of His Poetical Works, the Tale of a Tub, Battles of the Books, Gulliver's Travels, Direction to Servants, Polite Conversation, Art of Punning, Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, &C
Cassinus and Peter.
A Tragical Elegy.
1731.
Two college-sophs of Cambridge growth,
Both special wits, and lovers both,
Conferring as they us'd to meet
On love, and books, in rapture sweet,
(Muse, find me names to fit my metre,
Cassinus this, and t'other Peter),
Friend Peter to Cassinus goes,
To chat awhile and warm his nose;
But such a sight was never seen,
The lad lay swallow'd up in spleen;
He seem'd as just crept out of bed,
One greasy stocking round his head,
The other he sat down to darn
With threads of different colour'd yarn;
His breeches torn, exposing wide
A ragged shirt and tawny hide:
Scorch'd were his shins, his legs were bare
But well embrown'd with dirt and hair:
A rug was o'er his shoulders thrown;
A rug, for night-gown he had none;
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